Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemia in a Young Boy following Mumps Infection: A Case Report by Jayakanthan Saravanan, AP Krithika, M Geetha

“…The Government of India includes the administration of the Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccine only (without the mumps vaccine) at 9 and 15 months of age for all children in the National Immunisation Schedule. …”
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Chip Design of PTP Time Synchronization for Industrial IoT by Yee-Shao Chen, Yuan-Sun Chu, da-Wei Lo, Yen-Ting Chiang, Ting-Chao Hou

“…After a detailed study of the IEEE 1588 protocol, this paper found that the main sources of time errors are frequency changes caused by the temperature characteristics and aging of the crystal oscillator, the uncertainty of network protocol stacking delay, and the queuing delay caused by packets. …”
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How family sports behavior shapes adolescent sleep: mediating effects in causation by Wenqi Wu, Aoming Xie, Xiaotian Li, Yiran Xun

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to describe adolescent sleep and explore its association with physical activity, focusing on the mediating role of family physical behavior.MethodsData were sourced from the Chinese Adolescent Health Database, which included responses from 7,482 adolescents aged 12–18 years about sleep, personal physical activity, and family physical activity. …”
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Effects of Resistance Training and Soy Isoflavone on Body Composition in Postmenopausal Women by Fábio Lera Orsatti, Eliana Aguiar Petri Nahas, Jorge Nahas-Neto, Nailza Maesta, Cláudio Lera Orsatti, Cesar Edurado Fernandes

“…This study used a placebo-controlled, double-blind (soy), randomized (ISO versus placebo) × (RT versus No RT) design. A total of 80 PW, aged 45–70 years, were randomly (71 completed 9-months intervention): RT + ISO (n=15), No RT + ISO (n=20), RT + placebo (n=18), and No RT + placebo (n=18). …”
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Flanker Task-Elicited Event-Related Potential Sources Reflect Human Recombinant Erythropoietin Differential Effects on Parkinson’s Patients by Maria L. Bringas Vega, Shengnan Liu, Min Zhang, Ivonne Pedroso Ibañez, Lilia M. Morales Chacon, Lidice Galan Garcia, Vanessa Perez Bocourt, Marjan Jahanshahi, Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa

“…The samples were 18 medicated PD patients (nine of them received rHuEPO in addition to their usual anti-PD medication through random allocation and the other nine patients were on their regular anti-PD medication only) and 9 age and education-matched healthy controls (HCs) who completed the flanker task with simultaneous EEG recordings. …”
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Examine the Availability and Safety of Mucosal Cutting Biopsy Technique for Diagnosis of Gastric Submucosal Tumor by Kazuhiro Mizukami, Osamu Matsunari, Ryo Ogawa, Yuka Hirashita, Kazuhisa Okamoto, Kensuke Fukuda, Akira Sonoda, Hidetoshi Akiyama, Sotaro Ozaka, Yoshinari Kawahara, Tadayoshi Okimoto, Masaaki Kodama, Kazunari Murakami

“…The subjects were patients aged ≥20 years old in whom an SMT was seen on esophagogastroduodenography and who underwent MCB between January 2012 and December 2016. …”
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Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Aquagenic Pruritus among Medical and Pharmacy Students in Lomé (Togo) by Julienne Noude Teclessou, Koussake Kombate, Abla Sefako Akakpo, Abas Mouhari-Toure, Julie Zoua, Panawe Kassang, Bayaki Saka, Palokinam Pitche

“…In our study, 129/591 medical students had AP, giving a prevalence of AP to 21.8%. The average age of students with AP was 23.9 years, and the M/F sex ratio was 1.5. …”
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An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre by N Parker, T Navsaria, M Lopez, L Marineau, R Maine, K Chu, T Govender, D McPherson, P Navsaria

“…This was a retrospective audit of all patients admitted to the Trauma Centre who had a brain CT scan for suspected TBI between 1 February 2022 and 31 March 2022. Demographic data (age, sex), mechanism of injury and Glasgow Coma Score were recorded. …”
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Attitude towards research and self-study in Cuban medical science students during COVID-19 by Juan Arturo Berenguer Gouarnaluses, Margarita Montes de Oca Carmenaty, Adrián Alejandro Vitón-Castillo, Elizabeth Melissa Tablada Podio, Maritza del Carmen Berenguer Gouarnaluses

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> It was found a predominance of female students (66.5%), aged between 18 and 20 years (56.5%), of the medical career (92.5%) and of the third year (25.5 %). 34.5% of those surveyed came from the medical universities of Holguín and Pinar del Río. 87.5% of the surveyed students reported having joined the active investigations, in 87.0% of the cases the relatives did not present any objection. 66.0% of the surveyed students found this task useful. 79.5% affirmed that their incorporation into conducting active investigations in times of the COVID-19 pandemic had a great influence on their professional and humanistic training. 68.5% of the students expressed feeling support from the different health institutions. …”
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Latent profile analysis of burnout, depression, and anxiety symptoms among Chinese medical staff with frontline anti-epidemic experience in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era by Huachun Xu, Lanjun Qiu, Yu Chen, Mengjun Zhang, Junyi Li, Guochun Xiang

“…However, within the high-level profile, the inefficacy of burnout remained at a lower level, and anxiety performed as the most prominent symptom. Variables of gender, age, salary satisfaction, work hours, and work intensity predicted medical staff profiles (p &lt; 0.05).ConclusionIn the post-COVID-19 era, former frontline Chinese medical staff’s psychological symptoms were divided into three latent profiles. …”
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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis-Specific Antimitochondrial Antibodies in Neonatal Haemochromatosis by Daniel S. Smyk, Maria G. Mytilinaiou, Tassos Grammatikopoulos, A. S. Knisely, Giorgina Mieli-Vergani, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, Diego Vergani

“…Serum samples were obtained at diagnosis of NH, after liver transplantation (LT; age 1 month), and over the ensuing 17 months. Results. …”
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The Impact of Gross Motor Function on the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy in Saudi Arabia by Sharat Chandra Pani, Saja Fahad AlEidan, Rawan Nasser AlMutairi, AlJawharah Ali AlAbsi, Dalal Nasser AlMuhaidib, Hessa Faisal AlSulaiman, Najd Waleed AlFraih

“…The sample comprised 46 individuals aged between 13 and 17 years with Gross Motor Function Classification Scores (GMFCS) ranging from level I to level III. …”
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The Impact of Infectious Diseases on Clinical Characteristics and Immunological Correlations in Pediatric Henoch–Schönlein Purpura: A Five-Year Retrospective Study by Sînziana Oprițescu, Gabriela Viorela Nițescu, Mihaela Golumbeanu, Dora Boghițoiu, Elena Iuliana Ioniță, Diana-Andreea Ușurelu, Cristian Lucaci, Adriana Negoiță, Elena Moroșan

“…Furthermore, this retrospective study considered other factors, such as demographic characteristics (sex, area/environment, and age), and their effect on the pediatric population diagnosed with HSP. …”
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Kinetic Gait Changes after Robotic Exoskeleton Training in Adolescents and Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury by Kiran K. Karunakaran, Naphtaly Ehrenberg, JenFu Cheng, Katherine Bentley, Karen J. Nolan

“…Seven participants diagnosed with ABI between the ages of 14 and 27 years participated in the study. …”
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Videofluoroscopic swallowing study predicts clinical outcomes in critically Ill children with dysphagia: a retrospective observational study by Yoonju Na, Jaeyoung Choi, Jihong Choi, Su Mi Oh, Hyuna Jang, Suein Choi, Joongbum Cho, Jeong-Yi Kwon

“…BackgroundThis retrospective observational study aimed to investigate the features of acute dysphagia observed during videofluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS) in critically ill children and their potential to anticipate clinical outcomes.MethodsAdministrative healthcare data of children aged 1–18 were analyzed. Data were collected from the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a single tertiary medical center in South Korea between March 2019 and December 2022. …”
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Diabetes and gut microbiome by Kateřina Olša Fliegerová, Tiziana Maria Mahayri, Tiziana Maria Mahayri, Hana Sechovcová, Hana Sechovcová, Chahrazed Mekadim, Jakub Mrázek, Radka Jarošíková, Radka Jarošíková, Michal Dubský, Vladimíra Fejfarová, Vladimíra Fejfarová

“…Attention is focused on changes in the abundance of specific bacterial groups at different taxonomic levels in humans, and microbiome shift is also assessed in relation to geographic location, age, diet and antidiabetic drug. The causal relationship between gut bacteria and diabetes is still unclear, and future studies applying new methodological approaches to a broader range of microorganisms inhabiting the digestive tract are urgently needed. …”
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Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Service Suicide Applications in a Tertiary Psychiatric Clinic in Türkiye by Buket Koparal, Mehmet Ünler, Hande Gazey, Berfu Ünal, Hatice Cansu Selvi, Selçuk Candansayar

“…There was no statistical difference between the groups in terms of age, suicide method, or lifetime psychiatric diagnoses. …”
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Clinical study, network pharmacology, and molecular docking of Kunxian capsule in treating idiopathic membranous nephropathy by Jia Lv, Xinyu Gao, Lihua Liu, Libing He, Geng Tian, Xuehong Lu

“…The main potential mechanism of KX in treating IMN were pathways involved in cancer, the AGE-RAGE signaling pathway in diabetic complications, lipid and atherosclerosis. …”
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Exercise during pregnancy modulates infant cellular and whole‐body adiposity by Alex Claiborne, Filip Jevtovic, Donghai Zheng, Cody Strom, Breanna Wisseman, Samantha McDonald, Edward Newton, Steven Mouro, James DeVente, Joseph A. Houmard, Nicholas T. Broskey, Linda E. May

“…Infant body composition was measured at 1 month of age. ANCOVA and Pearson correlations determined the influence of prenatal exercise on infant adiposity. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effect of 0.01% Atropine Eye Drops Combined with Auricular Acupoint Stimulation on Myopia Progression by Xie-He Kong, Yue Zhao, Zhi Chen, Li Zeng, Rong Han, Xiao-Qing Dong, Xiao-Cong Guo, Zheng Shi, Guang Yang, Yan-Ting Yang, Dan Zhang, Xing-Tao Zhou, Xiao-Peng Ma

“…A total of 104 children were stratified by age and randomly assigned at 1 : 1 to receive 0.01% A or 0.01% A + AAS treatment for 6 months. …”
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